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I say, old chap, you forgot the "u" in "colour."
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Daily Blah for... Thursday, October 16, 2003
Time for a Change
SACRAMENTO: California's governor-elect has been sent back in time to preemptively eliminate a chief rival from the 2006 gubernatorial election, the Schwarzenegger campaign revealed last night.
The target of the temporal assassination was Sarah Connor, a Los Angeles-based waitress. In 1984, where Schwarzenegger has been sent, Connor was about to give birth to a son, John -- who, it is alleged, will become the greatest Democratic operative California has ever known.
"Sure, it might seem like hardball," said Schwarzenegger political advisor George Gorton. "But you haven't seen this kid. In his twenties, he becomes this incredibly telegenic orator. We simply couldn't take the risk of him going head to head with Arnold in the next campaign."
Outraged by what he called "an unprecedented politicization of the space-time continuum", Democratic lieutenant governor Cruz Bustamante announced he had sent back an operative of his own to save Sarah Connor's life. If that were successful, however, it is believed Republicans could attempt the assassination again at a later date, perhaps with a robot even more deadly than Schwarzenegger. "In which case," Bustamante told reporters, "we would be forced to capture Arnold, reprogram him and send him back to protect the teenage John Connor."
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